Of Headaches and Aspirins

As a write this post, I am plagued by an annoying and hard to ignore headache. This started at around 2 this afternoon and hasn’t stopped until now. And it’s almost 11pm. Imagine nine painful hours of consistent and persistent headache. It has made me very unproductive in all the sense of the word (not that I’m really productive when I don’t have a headache). Which reminds me of a post I’ve written a few months back, that was last year, actually — when I didn’t blog too often. This has been quite a disappointing day for me for many reasons, many of which I cannot talk about in this blog, unfortunately. It’s funny how they say that blogging gives you an outlet — some sort of a release, for your thoughts and feelings and all the mushiness you have inside when I, for example could not even touch topics that would make me appear like such an emo. Not that I mind being branded as one, it’s just that, until now, I still feel that I blog with reservations. No matter how personal I’ve tagged this blog, I simply can’t bring myself to bare my soul just like that. And for a personal blogger, that’s quite a frustration. Anyway, let’s not even dig deep into that, lest I frustrate myself some more and resort to cutting myself. I’ve never considered myself to be the suicidal type anyway.

I’ve taken an aspirin before I started writing this, in the hopes that the headache will go away as soon as I’m done here. Incidentally, I feel that the medicine is now slowly working its magic and the pain is getting bearable by the minute.

Unlike this physical headache though, a lot of pains in our life wouldn’t benefit from an aspirin. How i wish there was a universal aspirin. But if you examine closely, that may even be a good thing after all. Because, as I’ve observed, physical pain is but a smoke signal released by our body to solicit attention. And you know what they say — “where there’s smoke, there’s fire”. So whether your headache signals a physical ailment in the works or something else entirely is a question that should be answered more importantly than asking what “medicine” to take to relieve the pain.

My headache is almost gone and this post is almost done.

Are you having headaches too? When you do, do you scramble for the nearest aspirin or ask yourself what made you have it in the first place?

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